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Be it known that I, THOMAS Surinam-of Haywood county, in the State of Tennessee, have invented a new and useful Machine for Cleaning Cotton of dust` after it has gone from the gin, by the use of my ventilated lint-room or cotton-cleaner; and Ido hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawing, makingapart of this specification, in which-i y Figure l shows the Hoor of the lint-room, and

Figure 2 shows the side of the 1int-room, the opposite side being the same, except the door B (not in the opposite side.)

Figure 3 shows the end of the lint-room next to the gin.

C represents the ue of the gin, where the cotton goes from the gin to the lint-room. The opposite end of the lint-rooui is like ig. 8, except there is no opening, C, in the opposite end. The part of lfigure or drawing No. 1, marked A, shows the iloor of a room, into which the cotton is thrown from the ventilated lint-room, through the door I3, into a side room, of which C, in fig. 3, shows the end. Figs. 2 and 3 show that the lintroom is smaller at the bottom than the house, to allow the dust to escape entirely from the cotton. The iioor of the lint-room (iig. 1,) is elevated, for the saine purpose, some two feet above the floor ofthe house, if it has a floor. In the ordinary process, K the cotton and dirt (after having been separated by the saw and brush,) go together iuto the close lint-room, where the cotton takes up the most of the dirt again, and in that conditionl is baled. By my cotton-cleaner, open spaces about three-fourths of an inch wide, are left in the bottom, sides, and ends of the robm, being made of slats with the open spaces between them. The cotton-cleaner Vis protected from the weather by the house in which it is built. -The slats, on the sides and ends, are attached, at the top, to the wall of the room or house, while at the oor, the spaces between the wall of the house and the slats or lint-room are about two feet, as shown in figs. 2 and 3. The wall of the house being perpendicular, the slats forni 'the ventilated lint-room, which is, therefore, at the loor, about two feet smaller on 'each side hud end than at the top. Under the. influence of the current of air produced by the brush, the dirt is driven through these open spaces, and thc person in the lint-room is able to throw the cotton through the door B, clear of dirt, and thus the value of the cotton is increased twentyper cent. The house in which my cotton-cleaner or ventilated lint-room is built, I do not include in my lclaim for a patent.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The lint-room, as above described, made of slats, allowing the dust and dirt` to escape, in lieu of the ordinary close lint-room, which does not allow the dust and dirt to escape.

THOS. SHAPARD.

Witnesses:

M. R. HILL, C. W. HEIsnnLL. 

